SAILING’S TRAILBLAZER
We’ve all got a story to tell, yet those who flock to the seas manufacture the most electric of tales. This is the story of a girl who was heading down the wrong path, became the fighting underdog and is now conquering change for women all over the world.
It takes a standout character to create a global shockwave and that’s exactly what Tracy Edwards has achieved in empowering girls through education. Tracy Edwards MBE has received more than enough backlash, derogatory and sexist comments, especially by the press, yet this has not fazed her. In fact, this no-nonsense, straight-talking sailor thrived on the negativity to prove everyone wrong as she made history skippering the first all-female crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race, and becoming the first woman to receive the Yachtsman of the Year Trophy. ‘I often wondered if we would’ve carried on if everyone had said what I was doing was a good idea,’ she says.
She moved to the Gower Peninsula, Wales aged 10 after her father’s death,
